Single-handed, Sgt. Benton then encountered the Tem: of the gang and each succumbing to his deadly} marksmanship from bullets in the skull. One of the robbers, hearing. tthe shooting, came to the stairs, the: others hiding in the bedroom above. _Syt. Henton, satisfied that the first had been taken care of, returned to the stairs. The, second robber had just begun his descent when Benton got there. Threatened by the bandit's pistol, Benton opened fire without hesitation, one of his two shots striking the miscreant fairly in the throat. He was stone dead. as he fell the yerigining distance to. where Sge. Lenten stood.
The plucky officer did not know how many robbers were on the pre-
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